The Iowa Engineer, Volumen 15

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Iowa State College, 1914

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Página 175 - It is further agreed that the waters herein defined as boundary waters and waters flowing across the boundary shall not be polluted on either side to the injury of health or property on the other.
Página 239 - For a poet wrought in Panama With a continent for his theme, And he wrote with flood and fire To forge a planet's dream, And the derricks rang his dithyrambs And his stanzas roared in steam.
Página 253 - Pity allows them to leave their work when they damn-well choose. As in the thronged and the lighted ways, so in the dark and the desert they stand, Wary and watchful all their days that their brethren's days may be long in the land.
Página 175 - IX of the treaty of January 11, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain...
Página 253 - Raise ye the stone or cleave the wood to make a path more fair or flat; Lo, it is black already with blood some Son of Martha spilled for that! Not as a ladder from earth to Heaven, not as a witness to any creed, But simple service simply given to his own kind in their common need.
Página 239 - Where old Balboa bent his gaze He leads the liners through, And the Horn that tossed Magellan Bellows a far halloo, For where the navies never sailed Steamed Goethals and his crew; So nevermore the tropic routes Need poleward warp and veer, But on through the Gates of Goethals The steady keels shall steer, Where the tribes of man are led toward peace By the prophet-engineer.
Página 239 - Goethals — beeide his goal: Where old Balboa bent his gaze He leads the liners through, And the Horn that tossed Magellan Bellows a far halloo, For where the navies never sailed Steamed Goethals and his crew: So nevermore the tropic routes Need poleward warp and veer.
Página 175 - To what extent and by what causes and in what localities have the boundary waters between the United States and Canada been polluted so as to be injurious to the public health and unfit for domestic or other uses?
Página 253 - They say to the lesser floods, 'Be dry.' Under their rods are the rocks reproved — they are not afraid of that which is high. Then do the hill-tops shake to the summit — then is the bed of the deep laid bare, That the Sons of Mary may overcome it, pleasantly sleeping and unaware.
Página 31 - ... intent of the parties to it. Probably the majority of the civil law suits are caused not by trickery or deceit or dishonesty, but by the use of ambiguous words and phrases, bad ordering of the matter, incompleteness, and other faults in the language of the correspondence, specifications, and contracts. There is no more certain way for the engineer to protect his own and his client's interests than to prepare all documents in accordance with the best English usage as well as with technical skill...

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